Thirteen Albatrosses: or, Falling off the Mountain

The most rollicking and guiltlessly entertaining political novel in yearsFor decades Donald Harington has delighted fans with his thrilling, magical tales of Stay More, a small enclave in northern Arkansas. Now Harington expands on his fictional realm with the strange, quixotic quest of Vernon Ingledew to win the governorship of Arkansas. Ingledew, a polymath of surreal properties, is soon hampered by what his opponents refer to as his "Thirteen Albatrosses." Among them: he is an atheist; lives in sin with his first cousin; and believes in "extirpating"-that is, getting rid of-hospitals, prisons, tobacco, and handguns. Nevertheless, Ingledew attracts to his campaign some of America's heaviest political hitters. Together they form Ingledew's Seven Samurai, aides whose devotion will be tested by kidnappings, adulterous love affairs, and defection to the rival campaign of the vulgar, hated Arkansas Governor Shoat Bradfield (a Republican).Providing readers with an education in the dizzying whirligig of contemporary politics, Thirteen Albatrosses is wickedly funny and presciently topical-entertainment of the highest order.Harington, Donald is the author of 'Thirteen Albatrosses: or, Falling off the Mountain' with ISBN 9780805068559 and ISBN 0805068554.